I feel I can fly

There is a beautiful drive which is about 10-15 kms along the coast between Harihareshwar and Dive agar with a lots of photography opportunities।

My wife conceived the idea of this photograph and she wanted to click the photograph of me in that pose. Knowing the history of screwing good photographs of me because of the poses that could give a complex to Kishan Kumar (‘aaj hi hamne badle hai kapde, aaj hi hum nahaye hue hai’ fame in case you don’t know him) or Himalaya (Husband of Bhagyashree), I decided to stay behind the camera and asked her to become the model. The colors in the background were just perfect. This silhouette is the result of a great idea, the beautiful background, the perfect pose (and the perfect photography). However I do not have the high resolution picture of this one, else I would have surely enlarged and framed it.
Location: Somewhere between Harihareshwar & Dive agar, Maharashtra Camera: Minolta Dimage Z1

Ice Ice Baby!!!

“At the count of three, you throw the snow into the air and I’ll capture it in the frame...” That’s what I told Sheetal before clicking this snap. Sounds so simple! Isn’t it? In reality, it was not that simple. Clicking exactly at the precise time in that cold weather was a challenge. Sometimes I clicked before she threw the snow and sometimes I clicked when the snow landed back on the ground. 

Finally when I managed to hit the perfect timing, there were two a**holes in the background clicking the snap which I could not see from the viewfinder. We were not in a position to repeat the exercise again as it was freezing cold and both of us were standing in knee high snow. (Burrrrr...).

I could have photoshopped them but that was a very tedious task so I decided against it. Here is the result of our combined efforts.

Location: S Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

Camera: Canon powershot S3 IS

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Iron Butt Bikenomads

That’s what bikenomad (a biking group in India) riders are called who manage to cover 1000 kms plus in 24 hrs on the bike. Well, the riders in these photographs and I are yet to achieve that milestone, but we are proud to be a part of such a fantabulous (Thanks to Suresh Wadkar ji for this word) group which has many iron butts within the group.

The first photograph is of nomad Capt. Nandu Chitnis on his first long bike ride from Pune to Goa. I was his riding partner for initial 100 kms before returning back home. I clicked this near Tamhini ghat near Mulshi. Well the photograph isn’t great from the photography point of view, but the effect that I gave in Photoshop is cool isn’t it?

The second photograph is of nomad Suyash (well he is young, in his early twenties) during a group ride to local destination Tamhini ghat near Mulshi (about 100 kms from Pune, bikenomads consider rides under 100kms as local rides). I like this photograph because of its composition and the beautiful background. 

The sad part is I do not have the high-resolution original images of these photographs :-( 

Location (both photos): Tamhani ghat, near Mulshi, Pune India 

Camera: Minolta Dimage Z1

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Chi Chi....

The title chi chi has no connection with Govinda. The testing was successful so decided to put my first post immediately. This photograph is very close to my heart. One fine day when we came back from the grocery store, we saw that this squirrel was posing on the bark. I had grocery bags in my hand instead of a camera. I cursed myself for not carrying the camera. My wife encouraged me to run and get the camera. I was not at all hopeful that I could click this picture as it involved climbing two floors, opening the camera, fixing the lens, run down two floors and click the snap. Inspite of that I did all that and to my surprise this squirrel was still there waiting to get clicked. It gave me 7-8 good snaps before running away and this one is best of the lot.

Thanks to my wife for encouraging me to get the camera and like an obedient husband I listened to her (as always). Both of us decided to name this squirrel Chi Chi :)

Location: Walnut Creek, CA

Camera: Nikon D80